JavaScript code is part of LibX:
http://libx.org/libx/src/base/chrome/libx/content/libx/isbnutils.js
but can be used as a separate module. Including testing for ISBNs,
ISSNs, 13-10 conversion and checksum recomputation. MPL'ed.

 - Godmar

On 5/31/06, Kevin Kierans <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi,
> Re: ISBN going to 13 characters
> Anyone willing to share a (preferably) perl 13 to 10 character
> and a 10 to 13 character conversion routine?
> Or point me to one?
> Thanks.
> Kevin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of
> Ross Singer
> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 8:04 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] fun with kinosearch
>
>
> Plucene is (was?) a Perl port for Lucene.  Scuttlebutt has it that
> it's really, really slow.
>
> KinoSearch is also a Perl port for Lucene (although not as strict and,
> apparently, much faster).  The developer of KinoSearch and the
> developer of Ferret (the Lucene port for Ruby) are teaming with one of
> the developers of Lucene to make Lucy (which is a 'shared core' for
> Lucene) which would then make it easier to write interoperable code
> between these languages (at least, I presume that's the goal).
>
> http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-lucene/LucyProposal
>
> Pylucene seems to be left out of the party (I guess because instead of
> being a port -- it's actually the Java classes used by Python?  Is
> that right?).
>
> I'm not sure where stemming comes in (does Lucene do this?), it seems
> faceted browsing could be handled by something like Carrot2.  Rumor
> has it Solr has faceting support somewhere, as well.  At least,
> according to the 9s project.  http://www.nines.org/
>
> -Ross.
>
> On 5/30/06, K.G. Schneider <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > > There is nothing wrong with Lucene. In fact, Lucene seems to be
> > > becoming the indexer of choice. I just do not have the abilities to
> > > write things in Java.
> >
> > Ah--I read your document as referencing Lucene, but you actually wrote
> > *Plucene.*
> >
> > Karen S.
> >
> >
>